Math Time is a tutoring company for pre-algebra students. The profit this company makes in a year is given by the expression 0.5(200+32s), where s

Question

is the total number of students enrolled.

Part A: Use the distributive property to write an equivalent expression.

Answer 1

To use the distributive property, we can simplify the expression 0.5(200 + 32s) by multiplying 0.5 by each term inside the parentheses:

0.5 * 200 + 0.5 * 32s

This can be further simplified to:

100 + 16s

Therefore, an equivalent expression using the distributive property is 100 + 16s.